HowTo: Build GNU Emacs from CVS

July 28, 2008 - 1 min read

Why would you want to do this? Well, considering all the neat new things that have been added lately it should be tempting for any old Emacs fan. The Emacs Wiki has all the info you need, but here is a quick run-down of the bare necessities. Start by checking out your working copy: cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/emacs co emacs cd emacs/ ./configure make bootstrap Start with ./src/emacs or symlink the binary to your ~/bin/ directory.

More Emacs Progress!

July 22, 2008 - 1 min read

Wow, I’m almost starting to feel like a Windows user. The latest CVS builds of GNU Emacs has a lot of new features: XFT Support (font anti-aliasing) Better GTK integration (desktop) A font selector! I use the CVS version now as my daily driver in Ubuntu 8.10. It’s really useful, and I love the improved support for debugging programs inside Emacs! I think it is quite impressive how far this little editor has come.

No Wireless LED on ThinkPad T61

July 19, 2008 - 1 min read

ThinkPad
T61

I’ve got a ThinkPad T61 with Intel iwl3945 wireless chipset that I installed fresh with Ubuntu 8.04. Everything worked flawlessly out-of-the-box, except for the useless fingerprint scanner and the wireless LED. Don’t get me wrong, the wireless network worked fine, but the LED wasn’t on. At first I thought there was something wrong with the LED itself, but a couple of searches later I found that it was a known limitation of the 2.

Suddenly Compiz is not Working Anymore ...

July 17, 2008 - 1 min read

So weird. I usually rearrange my desktop every two weeks, often when I am bored. Sometimes I want a quick lean, smallish desktop and other times I want the whole shebang, all possible animations, SVG icons, mouse gestures — you name it and I will already have tons of it! Today I wanted to enable Compiz again and it just wouldn’t start. After a couple of tries that turned out to be dead ends I finally got this:

Missing Sound in Firefox?

July 14, 2008 - 1 min read

In Ubuntu 8.04 I recently discovered that you need to install the libflashsupport package if you get no sound in Firefox while running flash application/video. Oddly enough this is not a “required” or “supported” package in Ubuntu proper.

Regexp replace in many files

July 13, 2008 - 1 min read

I just have to blog about this exceptional tool I just found. It is called regexxer and is a tool in the true UNIX spirit — it does one job only, and does it well.

Minix editline v0.2.1

June 9, 2008 - 1 min read

The v0.2.0 release included some Debian patches, tcgetattr() and a batch mode (when reading from file) line reader. This release fixes a bug in the Debian patch that caused the batch mode version of readline() to actually truncate lines longer than 64 chars. Get it from the usual FTP location: http://ftp.vmlinux.org/pub/People/jocke/minix-editline/

Minix editline v0.1.4

June 9, 2008 - 1 min read

Another day another release, I guess. :-) Lots of small fixes — it can now be cross-built for Arm (Xscale) without any serious warnings. Get it from the usual FTP location: http://ftp.vmlinux.org/pub/People/jocke/minix-editline/

Minix editline v0.1.1

June 8, 2008 - 1 min read

Hot on the heels of the first one, only minor build fixes but this one should actually be usable by others. Now installs both library, include file and man page into the given --prefix. http://ftp.vmlinux.org/pub/People/jocke/minix-editline/

Minix editline v0.1.0

June 7, 2008 - 1 min read

I’ve been looking long and hard for a small and useful GNU readline replacement. Oddly enough, all the time I was looking for one I never even once considered looking at the Minix sources! Currently I’m using the NetBSD editline derivative (readline compatible) from Jess Thrysoee, but it requires ncurses, which is huge! All I really wanted was a bare bones readline() suitable for small embedded systems. One which could record history and preferably, but not required to, support completion.